MODERATOR, smiles: Good evening everyone and welcome to tonight’s debate streaming live from Shoreline Amphitheater outside Google headquarters. From all of us here in Mountain View, thanks for joining us. [to the camera] Tonight is the fourth and final presidential debate and voters’ last chance to see the candidates side-by-side before casting their ballots next Tuesday. Much could be determined in the next 90 minutes; so let’s get to it. [turns] To start things off, I’m going to ask that our two candidates introduce themselves to our live audience and nearly 80 million viewers tuning in from all across the world. [motions] Ladies and gentlemen, your candidates!
[audience cheers]
SEN. APPLE, smiles: Thank you all. [inhales] I’d like to …show more content…
[music swells] For years, professors have used software to check student’s term papers for plagiarism; with ALEXIS, we can now do the same for the candidates during the debates. ALEXIS is designed to detect in real-time if a candidate’s answer is rehearsed, to “find the fluff” as our engineers like to say. How you ask? It works by searching a database of each candidate’s past statements in order to identify similar answers. If ALEXIS determines that a candidate’s response is indeed a talking point, a loud buzzer sounds, signaling to the candidate what the rest of us are already thinking: …show more content…
$1,000,000 TO THE GOVERNOR.
MODERATOR, shakes head: With all due respect Senator, it seems voters wanted something different tonight-
[audience bursts into applause]
MODERATOR, waits until quiet: Frankly, I think at this point in the race Senator, most people are familiar with your positions and how you argue for them. [glances over] And the same goes for you Governor. You’ve both made it clear how you disagree. But it seems to me that the ALEXIS team wanted this debate to be about why + you disagree, as in, what’s behind the usual disagreements-
[audience claps loudly in the background]
MODERATOR, nodding: Both your platforms take positions on everything from textbooks and Russia to oil and motherhood. But what’s underneath all those unrelated policies? + Why, for instance, do people who support a carbon tax almost always disapprove of school vouchers? What’s really connecting them? [pause] I think those are the sorts of things we’re supposed to discuss tonight. [looks back and forth] Does that sound reasonable?
[audience
[audience cheers]
SEN. APPLE, smiles: Thank you all. [inhales] I’d like to …show more content…
[music swells] For years, professors have used software to check student’s term papers for plagiarism; with ALEXIS, we can now do the same for the candidates during the debates. ALEXIS is designed to detect in real-time if a candidate’s answer is rehearsed, to “find the fluff” as our engineers like to say. How you ask? It works by searching a database of each candidate’s past statements in order to identify similar answers. If ALEXIS determines that a candidate’s response is indeed a talking point, a loud buzzer sounds, signaling to the candidate what the rest of us are already thinking: …show more content…
$1,000,000 TO THE GOVERNOR.
MODERATOR, shakes head: With all due respect Senator, it seems voters wanted something different tonight-
[audience bursts into applause]
MODERATOR, waits until quiet: Frankly, I think at this point in the race Senator, most people are familiar with your positions and how you argue for them. [glances over] And the same goes for you Governor. You’ve both made it clear how you disagree. But it seems to me that the ALEXIS team wanted this debate to be about why + you disagree, as in, what’s behind the usual disagreements-
[audience claps loudly in the background]
MODERATOR, nodding: Both your platforms take positions on everything from textbooks and Russia to oil and motherhood. But what’s underneath all those unrelated policies? + Why, for instance, do people who support a carbon tax almost always disapprove of school vouchers? What’s really connecting them? [pause] I think those are the sorts of things we’re supposed to discuss tonight. [looks back and forth] Does that sound reasonable?
[audience